RUBIES IN THE SAND
HEALTH FOR THE MILLIONS
FASTING CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE
SUPERIOR NUTRITION
FOOD COMBINING MADE EASY
HUMAN BEAUTY: ITS CULTURE AND HYGIENE

With an Introduction by

VIRGINIA VETRANO

Published 1968 By:

DR. SHELTON'S HEALTH SCHOOL

SAN ANTONIO TEXAS

I HAVE long and publicly taught the
doctrine that, as a general proposition, man causes his own sickness
and suffering-that in almost all cases, he is more or less to
blame for being sick, and that he as truly owes society an apology
for being sick as he does for being drunk.

--Sylvester Graham, July 13, 1884

DEDICATIONTO THAT brilliant company of men and women
who served as accoucheurs at the rebirth of Hygiene,
and to the glorious future that their labors make possible for
all mankind, this book is sincerely dedicated by
---The Author

WE ARE NOT reformers; we are revolutionists.
Medical reform--the world has had quite enough of that. Reforming
the drug system by substituting one set of drugs for another
is a ridiculous farce. It may, to be sure, substitute a lesser
for a greater evil, in many cases, but is like reforming big
lies with little falsehoods. It is like reforming swearing with
obscene language; or like reforming robbing with cheating. Reforming
allopathy with homeopathy and both with physio-medicalism, and
all these with eclecticism, is like promoting temperance by substituting
cider and lager for rum, brandy, gin, wine, or flesh eating by
substituting milk, butter, cheese, for animal food.

We have no substitute for drug medicines.
We let them alone as evil things, and prescribe good things.
We cannot reform or change a falsehood. We have only to teach
the truth. Our system is independent of all others. Its premises
are original. Its doctrines have never before been taught in
medical schools, nor written in medical books, nor recognized
by medical men. They go back, (or perhaps forward), of all that
has even heretofore been taught, assumed, or pretended, to the
very Laws of Nature Themselves and we recognize no text book
of authority although we have many for reference except that
written by God's own hand--the out-spread volume of Nature.

From his introductory lecture on "The
Problems o f Medical Science," delivered before the 1863-4
class of the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College, by R. T. Trall,
M.D.